On 25.08.2026 (4:30pm Berlin time), I will be holding my talk „Thoughts on (Modern?) Software Development – Observations From a 21-Year Journey” at techcamp Hamburg 2026 (in person and in german).
The talk’s sources can be found here, the conference’s registration page and schedule here:
https://techcamp.hamburg/#tickets
https://techcamp.hamburg/programm-2026
The event will be taking place at the following location:
Klubhaus St. Pauli
Spielbudenplatz 21 / 22
20359 St. Pauli, Hamburg
Google Maps: https://www.google.com/maps/place/VIP+Karaoke+Klubhaus+St.+Pauli/…
During the talk and in the ensuing discussion some additional sources were mentioned:
- Uwe Friedrichsen’s blog posts:
- Uwe’s JAX 2026 slides: „The 7 Pitfalls of AI“
- „We Are Our Own Worst Enemies”
- „Thoughts on AI and Software Development“ (4 parts)
- Margaret-Anne Storey: „From Technical Debt to Cognitive and Intent Debt: Rethinking Software Health in the Age of AI“
- Andrew Murphy‘s „If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem – you have bigger problems“
- Gergely Orosz: “Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization?”
- The Atlantic: „The End of Reading is Here“
- Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister in „Peopleware (re-visited)”: “The High-Tech Illusion“
- „Ten takeaways from the AI Engineering Report 2026: The Acceleration Whiplash”
- Richard Sheridan “Joy, Inc.“
- John Allspaw: “How Your Systems Keep Running Day After Day“
- David Foster Wallace‘s “This is Water”
- Carl Sagan’s “Pale Blue Dot” speech and “Cosmos” thread
- Yuval Noah Harari’s “Nexus” thread
- Nathaniel Rich’s “Losing Earth” article (or the book)
- Guide to my Mastodon hashtags
- Last but not least:
- The link to all other sources I did mention in the „Thoughts“-related discussions since 2024